Thursday, December 15, 2016

Upload #148 - shaping clay

I picked up Whitney Bodman's Poetics of Iblis again. I hadn't been able to make use of it before, when I bought it in 2011; I have always disputed its positioning of sura 38 prior to suras 20, 7, and 2. But this year, I have turned "Solomon's Revenge" into a defence of sura 38's traditional structure. Bodman has proved of use to this project. I am glad I didn't just throw out his book.

I also have continued to impose order on "The Iconoclast". The key to sura 21 is the prophet as non-believer, namely a nonbeliever in icons and the Cross.